Scorpion Sinking
I just finished the book "All Hands Down, The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the Scorpion".
No small thanks to that traitor, John Walker, Jr., The Russians were able to decode every message sent to/from Scorpion and knew its track, destination, and mission.
According to the author, the Scorpion was torpedoed by a sub-hunter helicopter launched from a Russian ship. The pic shows the type of helicopter suspected of sinking the Scorpion. Normally armed with two acoustic torpedoes, it took off from one ship and landed at another so no one on the launching ship would see that it landed with just one torpedo. Clever.
The investigation team was directed not to consider an enemy attack as a cause of the sinking. Politics at work again. In my book, intentionally sinking a ship in international waters (mid Atlantic) is an act of war.
Last edited by A-37; 05-30-2018 at 06:22 PM.
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